Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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